Designer: Google Glass will make you look like a dork on a Segway

Attendees try on pairs of Google Glass on the sixth day of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center in New York.

Glass at NY Fashion Week in February. (Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times)

Designer Marc Newsom is all for wearable technology. He just thinks Google Glass makes people look like “a bit of an idiot.”

Newsom, a renowned industrial designer who has given his signature sleek, fluid design touch to everything from airplane interiors to watches, weighed in on Glass during an interview with dezeen magazine about the launch of his new eyewear line. Unlike most other Glass criticisms, though, Newsom’s is a purely aesthetic one.

Wearable technology, he said, is “certainly the future” — a prime opportunity for industrial design and fashion to come together. Google, though, has missed that mark.

“What Google have done thus far, I wouldn’t be seen dead wearing,” he said. “It’s a little bit like that wonderful invention called the Segway. It’s such a fantastic piece of technology but you just look like a complete d— when you drive around on it.”